Dooryard Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dooryard Stories, credited to Clara Dillingham Pierson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Dooryard Stories by Clara Dillingham Pierson. Read in English by Trotsa. A collections of stories about the animals around our houses, the birds, the cats, and even the bugs! Written in a humorous and very interesting style, the animals sound almost human, and you can learn along with them. You'll learn what happens to a hog caterpillar when he does not take advice, how a a young bird took a nasty fall because he didn't obey his parents, and how happy it made some robins when they helped their parents care for their younger siblings that came so close behind the first ones. Lots of other stories too about the animal's lives, make you realize that the animals in your dooryard may be more interesting than you think! (summary by Trotsa)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dooryard Stories
• Author credits: Clara Dillingham Pierson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 2:43:01

Catalogue topics

• birds
• swift
• flicker
• robin
• talking animals
• learning lessons
• polistes
• yellow-billed cuckoo

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface and Silvertip — 9:45
2. 02 - The Fight for the Bird-House — 7:07
3. 03 - The Fir-Tree Neighbors — 9:41
4. 04 - The Industrious Flicker — 8:26
5. 05 - Plucky Mrs. Polistes — 13:00
6. 06 - Silvertip Stops a Quarrel — 6:53
7. 07 - A Young Swift Tumbles — 12:06
8. 08 - The Very Rude Young Robins — 7:21
9. 09 - The Systematic Yellow-Billed Cuckoo — 8:47
10. 10 - The Helpful Tumble-Bugs — 7:29
11. 11 - Silvertip Leans a Lesson — 9:01
12. 12 - The Robin's Double Brood — 9:09
13. 13 - The Sparrows Inside the Eaves — 9:54
14. 14 - A Rainy Day on the Lawn — 7:01
15. 15 - The Persistent Phoebe — 11:25
16. 16 - The Sad Story of the Hog Caterpillar — 8:01
17. 17 - The Cat and the Catbird — 9:03
18. 18 - The Friendly Blackbirds — 8:52

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